Embedded Ubiquitous Services on Hospital Information Systems

作者：Kuroda Tomohiro^*; Sasaki Hiroshi; Suenaga Takatoshi; Masuda Yasushi; Yasumuro Yoshihiro; Hori Kenta; Ohboshi Naoki; Takemura Tadamasa; Chihara Kunihiro; Yoshihara Hiroyuki

来源：IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2012, 16(6): 1216-1223.

DOI：10.1109/TITB.2012.2210434

• Digital Camera
• echograph
• hospital hnformation system (HIS)
• ubiquitous computing

Hospital information systems (HIS) have turned a hospital into a gigantic computer with huge computational power, huge storage, and wired/wireless local area network. On the other hand, a modern medical device, such as echograph, is a computer system with several functional units connected by an internal network named a bus. Therefore, we can embed such a medical device into the HIS by simply replacing the bus with the local area network. This paper designed and developed two embedded systems, a ubiquitous echograph system, and a networked digital camera. Evaluations of the developed systems clearly show that the proposed approach, embedding existing clinical systems into HIS, drastically changes productivity in the clinical field. Once a clinical system becomes a pluggable unit for a gigantic computer system, HIS, the combination of multiple embedded systems with application software designed under deep consideration about clinical processes may lead to the emergence of disruptive innovation in the clinical field.

• 出版日期2012-11